Bom Vimdin is a solid choice for a reissue.

Gamorrean Guard is interesting. He will likely sell well as an army builder, but the $25 price might slow that down.

Bib Fortuna is a bad choice. It should have been Mosep Bineed instead to get him into TVC and further the Cantina releases. It probably has more to do with mold availability than collector concerns.

This has only shown up once at 4am as available to ship for me, and it sold out before I could finish the transaction.

Yesterday morning it showed up as limited stock (though unable to order for pickup) for the first time at a couple of local stores, but too far for me to go on a toy run.

Today it showed up in a lot of local stores as limited stock, including the one closest to me, so I decided to give it a try. The store opens at 8, I was on the road at 7:30, and somehow it went to zero inventory in those few minutes, before the store was even open.

So, being out already anyway, I went to the next nearest store that had shown it in stock. I got there just as they opened at 8, but the shelf was empty. I spotted a team member stocking the toy section who had some of the mixed stock cases these have been shipping in, so I asked for her help. After checking shelves she went to the back and brought out 2 more mixed stock cases, and one (only one) of these was in there.

While I am happy to have them and will buy more if the opportunity arises, it was too much work and the preorder bait and switch did sting.

The on-line insanity has started with claims of sittings in CA and the ability to order the set for pick-up.  I think these are all bs rumors at this point.

Over on Rebelscum, a guy from Los Angeles (with a pretty clean reputation) has posted pictures in his car with the box, then later at home with the figures unboxed but still carded.

They're out there...we'll see how far across the country they make it!

I am not a Pulse Premium member. I went on at 1:15 EST to make sure I was ready at 2 and also because I wasn't 100% sure if the exclusive window. It let me order both the Stormtrooper 3pk and the Cantina 4pk.

Before I finished checking out it gave me an error message that something in my cart was unavailable. It gave no indication as to what, and wouldn't let me remove anything or. I closed that window and started over. This time the 3 pack was sold out. So I ordered 2 of the Cantina 4pks and was able to complete checkout. Minutes later this were sold out too.

I was hoping they would come back in stock at 2PM but they didn't.

It was all really weird. If they had less than 5,000 of each available that is weird. You don't turn on the factory for less than 20,000 units. You surely don't charge less than MSRP per figure if you are running a fraction of a regular run.

More will come, but probably only after whatever "new preorder system" is up. I assume it will include the tariff fees line to cover their bottom line.

It is back in stock now, and has switched to saying Premium Members Only. I guess they goofed in the initial listing.

EDIT: Lasted all of three minutes after being unlocked from Premium to go back to being sold out. I knew there was a reason I avoid Pulse usually. This is crazy.

Thanks Dave for your first-person information. That is a really scary situation. I realize that I am looking at it from the nebulous position of a toy collector, but expanding it out to ALL the industries that are going to feel it and are currently forced to reac to it is making my mind go numb. But at least I can stop asking questions that way.

Logically I am having trouble grasping why EE and BBTS are going to ve charging variable tariff fees on top of their prices. Unless they are directly importing toys from Chinese toy companies, don't they buy straight from US companies that have already imported the toys? (I understand the toy company has to pay the tariff, but on previously ordered product like current EE preorders, isn't there a price agreement already in place?)

Granted that going forward base prices for MSRP ought to jump significantly to cover the toy company's new tariff expense, but how does this become a conversation between EE and me, as opposed to between Hasbro and EE?

Can anyone dumb this down enough for me to make sense of it?